among the judges and the court secretaries, and Ibn Jamaʿah was invested with two robes of honor, one for the judiciary and the other for the pulpit.

When Jumada al-Akhirah came, a courier arrived with news that Imam al-Din al-Qazwini had been appointed to the chief judgeship (1) of Syria in place of Badr al-Din Ibn Jamaʿah; that Ibn Jamaʿah would remain responsible for the Friday sermon; and that the teaching post at the Qaymariyyah, formerly held by Imam al-Din, had been reassigned to him. A royal letter confirmed the sultan’s respect and favor toward him. He delivered his inaugural lesson at the Qaymariyyah on Thursday, the second of Rajab.

Imam al-Din (2) entered Damascus after the noon prayer on Wednesday, the eighth of Rajab, took his seat in the ʿAdiliyyah, and judged between the people (3). Poets celebrated him in their odes, among them (4) one that opens:

[Ṭawīl]
After hardship the days have turned to ease,
so the smiling fronts of Syria gleam with glad tidings.

At his ceremonial entry he wore a robe bestowed by the sultan, accompanied by Qadi Jamal al-Din al-Zawawi, the chief Maliki judge, who likewise wore a robe of honor. Imam al-Din’s conduct during the journey was praised; his refined manners and self-discipline were spoken of most favorably. On the morning of Wednesday, the middle of Rajab, he lectured at the ʿAdiliyyah, and after the lesson testimony was recorded appointing (5) his brother Jalal al-Din as deputy judge. He then sat in the Small Diwan wearing the robe (6), while people came to congratulate him, and his deed of investiture was read out on Friday at the Kamali window after the prayer (7) in the presence of the deputy of the sultanate and the other judges; it was recited by Sharaf al-Din al-Fazari.

In Shaʿban news arrived that Shams al-Din al-Aʿsar had assumed both the superintendence of the bureaus and the vizierate in Egypt, combining the two offices. In Damascus the oversight of the bureaus was entrusted to Fakhr al-Din Ibn al-Shirji in place of Zayn al-Din Ibn Ṣaṣrā, but within about a month he was dismissed (8) and replaced by Amin al-Din Ibn Hilal. The Shāmiyyah Barāniyyah together with the Nāsiriyyah was restored to Shaykh Zayn al-Din al-Fāriqi because of Kamal al-Din Ibn al-Sharīshi’s absence in Cairo, and he taught there on a Monday afternoon in Ramadan (9).

On the fourteenth of Dhu al-Qaʿdah, Emir Shams al-Din Qarasunqur al-Manṣūrī, the deputy governor of Egypt, was taken into custody (10).